Welcome to my blog. HIV prevalence is not a reliable indicator of sexual behavior because the virus is also transmitted through unsafe healthcare, unsafe cosmetic practices and various traditional practices. This is why many HIV interventions, most of which concentrate entirely on sexual behavior, have been so unsuccessful.

However, there were 10 men waiting outside the same operating room for circumcisions, which are claimed to cost around $60 (though when you add in the real costs they are about double that). Yet the current circumcision program is free and well resourced because the operation is supposed to protect men from being infected with HIV during penile-vaginal sex.

Each cesarean performed has a good chance of saving both the mother and the child. This is despite the poor health conditions that might result in serious illness or death for both following, perhaps even as a result of, the operation. But it could take 75 or more circumcisions to avert one HIV infection, and that's something of a best case scenario. It appears that women don't come second on the health agenda, after men; they come third, after men and children.